Week 1Welcome back. We give an especially warm welcome to our new class member, Bess, who has settled in like she’s been here all along.

We’ve had a busy week, retesting our basic facts and spellings to set ourselves up for the term; using our imagination to make up recounts about the holidays and revising all our knowledge about forces before embarking on the quest to find the answers to our burning questions.

Thank you to everyone who has returned the medical forms for camp. If you have not done this yet, could you please do so as soon as possible. Thanks. 4/8 Art with Mrs Vavasour 5/8 Visit to Nelson schools (reliever TBC)7/8 School Cross Country 13/8 Student-led conferences 2 pm onwards 18/8 ALL release day (reliever TBC) 26/8 Camp meeting 5 pm 27/8 ALL Impact Day Chch (reliever TBC) 2 - 4/9 Camp 22/9 Art with Mrs Vavasour 25/9 Term endsThis week's challenge: How many words can you find that have your spelling pattern in them?

We've had a fantastic (and very busy term) and it's hard to believe that we're already half way through the year. Next term we have exciting things planned with all our wonderings to explore, our work to share and camp!

In the meantime, here are some ideas to keep those reading, writing and maths skills honed over the holidays:

look through the ideas in the leaflets from the MoE given out at our meetings in Term 1

read, read, read, read, read.......visit the town library, get involved in one of their programmes or activity days - marlboroughlibraries.govt.nz

keep working on those basic facts - remember to keep those addition and subtraction facts sharp as well as chipping away at multiplication